Jane Bowles Quotes

#1. A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

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#2. I am a writer and I want to write.

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#3. ..it is against my entire code, but then, I have never even begun to use my code, although I judge everything by it.

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#4. Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

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#5. The face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

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#6. Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.

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#7. Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

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#8. I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

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#9. I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

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#10. The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

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#11. I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

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#12. Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

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#13. Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

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#14. Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

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#15. You see, I have a different nature than he has. What makes me happy I seem to catch out of the sky with both hands; I only hold whatever it is that I love because that is all I can really see.

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#16. My father predicted everything when he said I would procrastinate until I died.

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#17. I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

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#18. I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

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#19. It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

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